Chapter 256: Catch Me, and I'll Let You Hehehe!
"Maybe Hai Lao should ask Lin Ge about this, and he would get the answer," Xiao Yan said with a smile, seeing how Hai Bodong admired the Feather Sheath Wings. It felt a bit strange to be praised like that, face to face.
"Jiang Lin? That's true, he claims to be a refiner. Maybe he has connections in the Refiner's Guild," Hai Bodong murmured, his gaze turning to Jiang Lin, who was standing silently on the ground.
Jiang Lin didn't speak; he simply took a few steps forward. A few translucent light fragments shot out from the void and quickly spiraled around him a few times, then with a soft sound, two of them embedded themselves into the black armor on his back under his robe.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Two, four, six—exactly six red-golden wings spread out behind Jiang Lin, and as he continued walking forward, his body slowly began to rise. Eventually, he appeared in front of the stunned Hai Bodong, shrugging his shoulders and saying, "Perhaps, the 'connections' you're referring to are actually mine?"
"Six-leaf Feather Sheath???" Hai Bodong looked incredulously at the six-leaf Feather Sheath Wings on Jiang Lin's back, shocked. "The four-leaf Feather Sheath is still only circulating on a small scale. How did you get a six-leaf version? Did you add it yourself?"
"Well," Jiang Lin's eyes twitched slightly as he jokingly replied, "You were right halfway. I did add it myself, but whether it counts as 'padding,' I can't agree with that."
"???" Hai Bodong shifted his position, wanting to take a closer look at the six-leaf Feather Sheath behind Jiang Lin. But as soon as he moved, the six red-golden wings on Jiang Lin's back flickered, and in an instant, he disappeared, leaving only an afterimage!
"Huh?" Hai Bodong's Ice Crystal Wings suddenly gleamed, and with even greater speed, he pursued Jiang Lin into the distance.
"How about a race? Last time, I was defeated by another Dou Huang, and now I need to regain some confidence from you." Jiang Lin, fully activating the six-leaf Feather Sheath Wings, left a brilliant trail in the sky as he looked back at Hai Bodong, who was slowly catching up, and smiled slightly.
Last time, he had really been defeated by Yun Yun, who had the Four-leaf Qingchan Wings. Jiang Lin thought that his flight speed would be comparable to a Dou Huang's after his burst, but Yun Yun's speed was so fast that he couldn't even see her tail light. He was trailing behind Xiao Yan when he saw Yun Yun turn into a blue streak across the sky and thought to himself that this was bad. He tried to catch up, but he couldn't. That's why, even though he left earlier, he arrived last—he was outpaced by Yun Yun.
Xiao Yan, seeing this, couldn't help but feel a bit interested. His wings flared with a burst of energy, and he immediately shot toward Hai Bodong, eager to join the chase!
"Good one! That's some confidence!" Hai Bodong was shocked as he saw Jiang Lin's energy suddenly expand. He started absorbing the energy of heaven and earth, and Jiang Lin quickly transformed into a red-golden meteor, rapidly pulling away from Hai Bodong. He was astonished. "This guy's flight speed has already reached the normal flight speed of a Dou Huang!"
"But I'm going to show you what real Dou Huang flight speed looks like!"
"Hahaha! Catch me, and I'll let you hehe!" Hai Bodong roared inwardly, and his Dou Qi quickly circulated, condensing into his Ice Crystal Wings.
Advanced Xuan-class: Xuan Bing You Long!
The Ice Crystal Wings instantly flared and ignited. Hai Bodong, who hadn't flown for over twenty years, was provoked by Jiang Lin and immediately activated his high-level Xuan-class flying Dou Technique! As one of the top ten experts of Gamma in the past, Hai Bodong was skilled in various advanced Dou Techniques, including those that enhanced flight speed!
Why did Hai Bodong admire the Feather Sheath Wings so much? Because he himself had studied Dou Techniques and understood how extraordinary it was to solidify a Dou Wang-level flight Dou Technique into a Dou Tool that anyone could use! Most flight Dou Techniques were like Hai Bodong's—designed to enhance the flight speed of the user. Only a few rare techniques, like the Purple Cloud Wings, were true flying secrets!
Buzz!
On Hai Bodong's Ice Crystal Wings, patterns like dragon scales appeared, and together, they transformed his wings into enormous ice-blue dragon wings!
"Wow! Hai Bodong hasn't flown in so long, and he's already going all out?" Xiao Yan muttered to himself, seeing this, and without hesitation, he activated the fire-type crystal core in his body. His aura surged to a higher level, but he stopped before pushing further, fearing the strain. He injected all the surging Dou Qi into the four-leaf Feather Sheath Wings on his back, and the already deep red wings erupted into two to three meters of fiery light! With a whoosh, Xiao Yan, his entire body glowing red from the Dou Qi, soared toward Hai Bodong and Jiang Lin!
"...This kind of energy that damages meridians is usually used for life-threatening situations, but here you are using it to race?" Yao Chen, in Xiao Yan's storage ring, couldn't help but feel speechless at Xiao Yan's reckless behavior. Jiang Lin had warned him before that using crystal core Dou Qi in large doses could lead to explosive techniques, causing great damage to the body but yielding terrifying results.
Normally, Xiao Yan should only be using such a dangerous technique in life-threatening situations.
But luckily, Xiao Yan was battered, and Jiang Lin could patch him up. As Yao Chen described Jiang Lin, "the external humanoid spirit tool," he had the ability to repair Xiao Yan's meridians.
"Hehe, if I don't hurry, I'll be left behind with no trace!" Xiao Yan grinned and pushed through the pain, holding back the cries of his meridians as he became a red fireball soaring toward the sky.
Meanwhile, ahead, the ice-blue light shadow and the red-golden flame had already vanished from view!
"Good, good, good, not bad for an old Dou Huang." Jiang Lin, transformed into a red-golden flame with his Dou Qi Furnace, glanced back. Hai Bodong, with his Ice Crystal Wings covered in ice-blue Dou Qi, was quickly closing in on him, and the dragon-like scales on his wings were exuding a powerful chill!
"But, hehe, since you've already said such nonsense, I won't let you catch up." When the three men were racing through the sky, it was no longer just a simple speed test!
Buzz!
A powerful burst of colorful Dou Qi exploded inside Jiang Lin!
The tail of his red-golden wings instantly flared with radiant colors!
Whoosh!
Jiang Lin's speed surged once again!
(END CHAPTER)
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